Internationalization

VMware vSphere 5.0 is available in the following languages:

English

French

German

Japanese

Korean

Simplified Chinese

vSphere Client Locale Forcing Mode

With vSphere 5.0, you can configure the VMware vSphere Client™ to provide the interface text in English even when the machine on which it is running is not English. You can set this configuration for the duration of a single session by running a command-line switch. This configuration applies to the interface text and does not affect other locale-related settings such as date and time or numeric formatting.

The following vSphere Client command causes the individual session to appear in English:vpxClient -locale en_US

Features Added in This Release

This release includes all features and fixes from 5.0 Update 3.

Compatibility and Installation

ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Client Version Compatibility

The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware vSphere components, including ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, the vSphere Client, and optional VMware products. In addition, this site provides information about supported management and backup agents that you can run before installing ESXi or vCenter Server.

The vSphere Web Client and the vSphere Client are packaged with the vCenter Server and modules ZIP file. You can install one or both clients from the VMware vCenter Installer wizard.

Inventory Service Database

The Inventory Service database does not have a scheduled backup. You should back up the Inventory Service database as part of your regular vCenter Server database administration. To move the Inventory Service database to a different host machine, back up the database on the source machine and restore the database on the destination machine as described in the vSphere Installation and Setup documentation.

Guest Operating System Customization Support

vSphere Client Connections to Linked Mode Environments

vCenter Server 5.0 can exist in Linked Mode only with other instances of vCenter Server 5.0. Linked Mode groups that contain both vCenter Server 5.0 and earlier versions of vCenter Server (such as vCenter Server 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.1) are not supported. In this release, you can manage Linked Mode groups that contain both vCenter Server 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 Update instances.

After successful installation, you must perform some licensing, networking, and security configuration. For information about these configuration tasks, see the following guides in the vSphere documentation.

vCenter Server 5.0 supports installation on Windows 64-bit platforms only. You can upgrade from vCenter Server 4.1 to vCenter Server 5.0 on the same system if it is 64 bit. If you have VMware vCenter Server 2.5 or vCenter Server 4.0 on 32-bit systems installed, see the vSphere Upgrade documentation for instructions on installing vCenter Server on a 64-bit operating system and preserving your vCenter Server database.

Upgrades for This Release

For instructions about how to upgrade vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, see the vSphere Upgrade documentation.

vSphere 5.0 supports the following upgrade scenarios:

You can perform in-place upgrades on 64-bit systems from vCenter Server 4.x to vCenter Server 5.0.
You cannot upgrade an instance of vCenter Server 4.0.x that is running on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

You can upgrade vCenter Server 2.5 Update 6 or later and vCenter Server 4.0.x to vCenter Server 5.0 by installing vCenter Server 5.0 on a new 64-bit operating
system and migrating the existing database.
This upgrade method makes an upgrade from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system possible.

vCenter Server 5.0 can manage ESXi 5.0 hosts in the same cluster with ESX/ESXi 4.x and ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts. It can also manage ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts in the same
cluster with ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts. vCenter Server 5.0 cannot manage ESX 2.x or 3.0.x hosts.

VMware vSphere SDKs

VMware vSphere provides a set of SDKs for vSphere server and guest operating system environments.

vSphere Management SDK. A collection of software development kits for the vSphere management programming environment. The vSphere Management SDK contains the following vSphere SDKs:

vSphere Web Services SDK. Includes support for new features available in ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 server systems.
You can also use this SDK with earlier versions of ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server. For more information,
see the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK documentation.

Open Source Components for VMware vSphere

The copyright statements and licenses applicable to the open source software components distributed with vSphere 5.0 are available at
http://www.vmware.com/download/vsphere/open_source.html, on the Open Source tab. You can also download the source files for any GPL, LGPL, or other similar licenses that require that the source code or modifications to source code are made available for the most recent generally available release of vSphere.

Product Support Notices

VMware vSphere 5.0 is the last release for the following management features and platforms. VMware continues to provide technical support for these features and platforms through the end of their support lifecycles.

VMware Toolbox: vSphere 5.0 is the last release to include support for the VMware Tools graphical user interface, VMware Toolbox. VMware will
continue to update and support the Toolbox command-line interface (CLI) to perform all VMware Tools functions.

VMI Paravirtualization: vSphere 4.1 was the last release to support the VMI guest operating system paravirtualization interface. For information
about migrating virtual machines that are enabled for VMI so that they can run on later vSphere releases, see Knowledge Base article 1013842.

VMCI Sockets: vSphere 5.0 is the last major release to support use of Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) sockets to communicate between
virtual machines. Use of VMCI sockets to communicate between ESXi and virtual machines continues to be supported.

Prebuilt Modules for Unsupported Linux Guests: vSphere 5.0 is the last release to ship prebuilt modules (PBMs) for unsupported Linux guest
operating systems. To use an unsupported Linux guest, you must compile Linux kernel modules from source code during VMware Tools installation.

vSphere 5.0 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last vSphere versions to support VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMware Virtual Center 2.5: Future versions of vSphere, which includes VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, VMware vSphere Client, and VMware vCenter extensions and plug-ins, such as
vCenter Update Manager, will not operate with VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 or VMware Virtual Center 2.5. VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 will continue
to be supported until their originally published end-of-support dates.

Resolved Issues

Update to OpenSSL library addresses security issues
The OpenSSL library is updated to version openssl-0.9.8za to address CVE-2014-0224 and CVE-2014-3470.

Known Issues

Read through all of the Known Issues to find items that apply to you. The issues are grouped as follows.

Installation

Launch of autorun.exe on a Windows 2012 machine with MS SQL Server installed displays script errors
On a Windows 2012 machine that has Microsoft SQL Server installed, launching autorun.exe from the product installation media causes script errors to be displayed.Workaround: This issue occurs only on the first attempt to launch autorun.exe. To resolve the issue, ensure the installer has stopped completely and launch the autorun.exe again.

No error message when you install vSphere Authentication Proxy, vSphere ESXi Dump Collector, and vSphere Syslog Collector support tools for vCenter Server on earlier versions of vCenter Server
vCenter Server tools (VMware ESXi Dump Collector, VMware Syslog collector, vSphere Auto Deploy, and vSphere Authentication Proxy) are included with the vSphere 5.0 installation media. If you attempt to install one or more of these tools on a system on which an earlier version of vCenter Server is installed, the installation fails without displaying an error message.Workaround: None

vSphere Authentication Proxy, vSphere ESXi Dump Collector, and vSphere Syslog Collector support tools for vCenter Server do not support IPv6
The host machines for Authentication Proxy, ESXi Dump Collector, and Syslog Collector must each have a valid IPv4 address. You can install these support tools on machines in IPv4-only or IPv4/IPv6 mixed-mode network environments. You cannot install the tools on machines in IPv6-only environments. The Authentication Proxy, ESXi Dump Collector, and Syslog Collector services bind to an IPv4 address for communication with vCenter Server, and do not support IPv6. The vCenter Server can be on a host machine in an IPv4-only, IPv4/IPv6 mixed-mode, or IPv6-only network environment, but the machine that connects to the vCenter Server through the vSphere Client must have an IPv4 address for the Authentication Proxy, ESXi Dump Collector, and Syslog Collector services to work.Workaround: None.

vCenter Inventory Service does not support binding on IPv6 interfaces by default
When you install vCenter Server, vCenter Inventory Service supports only IPv4 by default.

Workaround: To enable IPv6 support for vCenter Inventory Service, take the following steps.

Stop the vCenter Inventory Service.

From the Administrative Tools control panel, select Services.

Right-click vCenter Inventory Service and select Stop.

In a text editor, open the following file:Inventory_Service_installation_directory/lib/server/config/dataservice.properties

Change the value for dataservice.nio.enabled to false.

Restart the vCenter Inventory Service.

Cannot install vSphere Client in folder whose name contains special characters
When you install the vSphere Client into a folder or directory whose name contains any of the characters semicolon (;), left square bracket ([), right square bracket (]), equals sign (=), plus sign (+), comma (,), or pound sign (#), the following error message appears:The installation path contains a ';' character. Please select an installation directory with this character.Even if the folder name does not contain a semicolon (;), you cannot install the vSphere Client into the specified folder. In addition, if you install the vSphere Client into a customized folder with a name that contains a pound character (#), the
client cannot connect to vCenter Server.Workaround: Do not install the vSphere Client into a customized folder with a folder name that contains any of the characters semicolon (;), left square bracket ([), right square bracket (]), equals sign (=), Plus sign (+), comma (,), or pound sign (#).

Joining a Linked Mode group after installation is unsuccessful if User Account Control is enabled on Windows 2008
When User Account Control (UAC) is enabled on Windows 2008 x64-bit operating systems and you try to join a machine to a Linked Mode group on a system that is already running vCenter Server, the link apparently succeeds without any errors, but in reality it is unsuccessful. Only one vCenter Server appears in the inventory list.

Workaround: Turn off User Account Control (UAC) before joining a Linked Mode group after installation, then turn it back on.

Turn off UAC.

From the Start menu, select Control Panel > User Accounts.

Select Turn User Account control on or off.

Deselect User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK.

Select Join this vCenter Server instance to an existing Linked-Mode group or another instance, and click Next.

Enter the server name and LDAP port information and click Next.

Click Continue to complete the installation.

Click Finish to end the linking process.

Log in to one of the vCenter Server systems and verify that the servers are linked.

After the vCenter Server systems are linked, turn on UAC.

From the Start menu, select Control Panel > User Accounts.

Select Turn User Account control on or off.

Select User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK.

Reboot the machine when prompted.

After installing the vSphere Web Client, when the user clicks Finish in the installation wizard, a browser opens and displays a blank page
After you install the vSphere Client, a browser opens and displays a blank page when you click Finish in the installation wizard. The page remains blank and the browser does not connect to the vSphere Administration application.Workaround: Close the browser and launch the vSphere Administration Application page from the Start menu.

vCenter Server upgrade fails with the error The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation
This problem can occur when the computer has insufficient contiguous memory for Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP to verify that the .msi package or the .msp package is correctly signed.

Workaround:

From the Windows Start menu, select Run, type control admintools, and click OK.

Double-click Local Security Policy.

Select Software Restriction Policies.

If no software restrictions are listed, right-click Software Restriction Policies, and select Create New Policy.

Under Object Type, double-click Enforcement.

Select All users except local administrators, and click OK.

Restart the computer, and retry the vCenter Server upgrade.

Data migration fails if the path to the vCenter Server installation media contains non-ASCII characters
When this problem occurs, an error message similar to: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 30: ordinal not in range(128) appears, and the installer quits unexpectedly during the data migration process.Workaround: Make sure the path to the vCenter Server installation media does not contain any non-ASCII characters.

Licensing

Automatic assignment of a vSphere license key to certain ESX/ESXi hosts in a host container might be unsuccessful and the hosts might remain in evaluation mode
vCenter Server 5.0 supports the automatic assignment of license keys to ESX/ESXi hosts. You can associate a license key with a host container in vCenter Server, such as a datacenter or a cluster. vCenter Server assigns the license key to all unlicensed hosts
that you add to this host container. You can associate only one license key to a host container. If the license that you associate with a host container is a different version than the hosts that you add to this host container, the license is not assigned
to the hosts. For example, if you associate a vSphere 5.x license to a cluster and you add ESX/ESXi 4.x to the cluster, the license is not assigned to the ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts and they remain in evaluation mode.Workaround: Make sure that all hosts that you add to a host container are of the same version as the license that you associate with the same container. If a host from the same container requires a license of a different version, associate the license directly with the host. For example, you associate a vSphere 5.x license with a cluster. You add ESXi 5.x hosts to the cluster and they are assigned the vSphere 5.x license. You add ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts to the same cluster and associate a vSphere 4.x license with the
hosts. You reconnect the ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts to vCenter Server and they are assigned the vSphere 4.x license.

Security

Datastore web interface sessions are not immediately terminated when you close the browser window
When you close a web browser after accessing the datastore web interface, the session is not immediately terminated on the server side. VMware would like to thank Jason Jones of Inner Security for reporting this issue.Workaround: You must click Logout in the datastore web interface to terminate the session before you close the browser window.

Networking

Adding a network resource pool to a vSphere Distributed Switch fails with the error
Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members
This error message indicates that one or more of the hosts on the distributed switch is already associated with the maximum number of network resource pools. The maximum number of network resource pools allowed on a host is 56.Workaround: None.

Fault Tolerance is not compatible with vSphere DirectPath I/O with vSphere vMotion
When Fault Tolerance is enabled on a virtual machine, DirectPath I/O with vMotion is inactive for all virtual adapters on the virtual machine.Workaround: Disable Fault Tolerance and reboot the virtual machine before enabling DirectPath I/O with vMotion.

vCenter Server Virtual Appliance does not support IPv6
Although the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Web console has an option to configure IPv6, vCenter Server Virtual Appliance does not support IPv6 configuration.Workaround: Do not set or change IPv6 configuration on the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Web console.

Storage

I/O latency threshold appears to be 15ms after you disable I/O metrics for a datastore cluster
After you disable I/O metrics for a datastore cluster, the Summary page for the datastore cluster continues to display an I/O latency threshold value of 15ms (the default).Workaround: None. To view the correct value, select Datastore Cluster>Storage

Link to enter SDRS maintenance mode appears on Summary page of standalone datastore
Only datastores that are a part of a datastore cluster can successfully enter Storage DRS maintenance mode. However, a link to enter Storage DRS maintenance mode appears on the Summary page for a datastore that is not in a datastore cluster. When you click Enter SDRS maintenance mode for a standalone datastore, the datastore attempts to enter maintenance mode and the task appears to be pending indefinitely.Workaround: Cancel the Enter SDRS Maintenance Mode task in the Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client.

An all paths down (APD) condition during Storage vMotion can result in communication failure between vCenter Server and ESXi host
If an APD condition occurs when you migrate virtual machines using Storage vMotion, vCenter Server disconnects the host involved in Storage vMotion from the vCenter Server inventory. This condition persists until the background Storage vMotion operation completes. This action could take a few minutes or hours depending on the Storage vMotion operation time. During this time, no other operation can be performed for that particular host from vCenter Server.Workaround: None. After the Storage vMotion operation completes, vCenter Server reconnects the host back to the inventory. None of the running virtual machines on non-APD datastores are affected by this failure.

Symbolic links added to a datastore might cause the Datastore Browser to incorrectly display datastore contents
When you add symbolic links at the top level of a datastore, either externally in an NFS server or by logging in to the host, you might not be able to see the correct datastore information, such as its files and folders, when you browse the datastore. Symbolic links referencing incorrect files and folders might cause this problem. Workaround: Remove the symbolic links. Do not use symbolic links in datastores.

Attempts to add an extent to an ATS-capable VMFS datastore fail
You can only span an ATS-capable datastore over an ATS-capable device. If you select the device that does not support ATS to extend the ATS-capable datastore, the operation fails. The vSphere Client displays the An error occurred during host configuration message. In the log file, you might also find the following error message:Operation failed, unable to add extent to filesystem.Workaround: Before adding an extent to an ATS datastore, verify whether the extent device supports ATS by running the following command:esxcli storage core device vaai status get -d=device_IDThe output must display the following information:ATS Status: supported

Storage DRS might not behave as expected when balancing I/O load
When you use IOMeter software to generate I/O load to test Storage DRS, the IOMeter populates the files with only zeros by default. This data does not contain random patterns of ones and zeros, which are present in real data and which are required by Storage DRS to determine the I/O characteristics and performance of the datastore. Workaround: When you test Storage DRS load balancing, use real data to populate at least 20 percent of the storage space on the datastore. If you use IOMeter software to generate I/O load, choose a version that allows you to write random patterns of ones and zeros to your files.

Names of new virtual machine disks do not appear in Storage DRS initial placement recommendations
When creating, cloning, or deploying from template a virtual machine on a Storage DRS-enabled datastore cluster, the placement recommendations or faults dialog box does not list the names of the new virtual machine hard disks. The dialog box displaysPlace new virtual machine hard disk on <datastore name>.Workaround: None. When virtual machines are being created, hard disk names are not assigned until the disks are placed. If the virtual machine hard disks are of different size and are placed on different datastores, you can use the Space Utilization before and after statistics to estimate which disk is placed on which datastore.

Storage DRS appears to be disabled when you use the Scheduled Task wizard to create or clone a virtual machine
When you create a scheduled task to clone or create a virtual machine, and select a datastore cluster as the destination storage for the virtual machine files, the Disable Storage DRS check box is always selected. You cannot deselect the Disable Storage DRS check box for the virtual machine in the Scheduled Task wizard.Workaround: None. The Disable Storage DRS check box is always selected in the Scheduled Task wizard. However, after the Scheduled Task runs and the virtual machine is created, the automation level of the virtual machine is the same as the default automation level of the datastore cluster.

vSphere Client displays an error when you attempt to unmount an NFS datastore with Storage I/O Control enabled
If you enable Storage I/O Control for an NFS datastore, you cannot unmount that datastore. The following error message appears:The resource is in use.Workaround: Before you attempt to unmount the datastore, disable Storage I/O Control.

After migration, the mode of an IDE RDM disk in physical compatibility does not change to Independent Persistent
The mode of the IDE RDM disk in physical compatibility does not change to Independent Persistent after you migrate the virtual machine with the disk from the ESX/ESXi 4.x host to ESXi 5.0.Workaround: After migration, use the vSphere Client to change the disk's mode to Independent Persistent.

Attempts to add a virtual compatibility RDM with a child disk to an existing virtual machine fail
If you try to add a virtual compatibility RDM that has a child disk to an existing virtual machine, the operation fails. The vSphere Client displays the following error message:Reconfigure failed: vim.fault.DeviceUnsupportedForVmPlatform.Workaround: Remove a child disk to be able to add a virtual compatibility RDM.

With software FCoE enabled, attempts to display Storage Maps fail with an error message
This problem affects only those ESXi hosts that have been added to vCenter Server without any previous software FCoE configuration. After you enable software FCoE adapters on these hosts, attempts to display Storage Maps in the vSphere Client fail. The following error message appears: An internal error has occurred: Failed to serialize response.Workaround: Configure software FCoE on the ESXi host first, and then add the host to vCenter Server.

Attempts to unregister multiple storage vendor providers at the same time might fail with an error
If you try to simultaneously unregister multiple vendor providers from vCenter Server, your attempts might fail. The following error message appears even though the failed vendor providers are present in vCenter Server:ManagedObjectNotFound.The sms.log file might display the following exception:ProviderUnregistrationFault.Workaround: Manually unregister one vendor provider at a time.

Server Configuration

Applying a host profile with a service startup policy of off does not disable the service
A host profile is created using as a reference host an ESXi host configured with some services disabled and is applied to a host with those services enabled. The host
profile application process does not disable the services on the target ESXi host. This situation is commonly encountered by users who have enabled the ESXShell or SSH
services on the target ESXi hosts through the Security Profile in the vSphere Client
or Troubleshooting Options in the DCUI.

Workaround: The reboot process disables the services. You can also manually stop the services in the vSphere Client by configuring the host. Perform this procedure for
each service.

Select the host in the inventory.

Click the Configuration tab.

Click Security Profile in the Software section.

Click Properties and select the service.

Click Options.

Click Stop and click OK.

Host profile answer file status is not updated when switching the attached profile of the host
When attaching a host profile to a host that was previously attached to another host profile, the answer file status is not updated. If the answer file status is Completed,after attaching another host profile to the host, the answer file status in the host profile view still appears as Completed. The actual status, however, might be changed to Incomplete.

Right-click the host from the Entity Name list and select Check Answer File.

The host profile answer file status is updated.

Manually applying a host profile containing a large configuration might timeout
Applying a host profile that contains a large configuration, for example, a very large
number of vSwitches and port groups, might timeout if the target host is either not
configured or only partially configured. In such cases, the user sees the
Cannot apply the host configuration error message in the vSphere Client, although the underlying
process on ESXi that is applying the configuration might continue to run.

In addition, syslog.log or other log files might have error messages such as the
following message:Error interacting with configuration file /etc/vmware/esx.conf: Timeout while waiting
for lock, /etc/vmware/esx.conf.LOCK, to be released. Another process has kept this
file locked for more than 20 seconds. The process currently holding the lock
is hostd-worker(5055). This is likely a temporary condition. Please try your
operation again.

This error is caused by contention on the system while multiple operations attempt to
gather system configuration information while the host profiles apply operation
sets configuration. Because of these errors and other timeout-related errors, even after
the host profiles apply operation completes on the system, the configuration captured in
the host profile might not be fully applied. Checking the host for compliance
shows which parts of the configuration failed to apply, and perform an Apply
operation to fix those remaining non-compliance issues.

Workaround: Perform one of the following:

ESXi hosts not provisioned with Auto Deploy

Increase the timeout value for the apply operation by adding the following entry in the /etc/vmware/hostd/cmdMo.xml file:

Where xxxx is the timeout value in seconds. By default, the apply operation times out in 10 minutes. This entry lets you set a longer timeout. For example, a value of 3600 increases the timeout to 1 hour. The value you enter might vary depending on the specific host profile configuration. After you set a high enough value, the apply operation timeout error
no longer appears and the task is visible in the vSphere Client until it is complete.

Restart hostd.

Hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy

Reboot the ESXi host provisioned with Auto Deploy.

For ESXi hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy, ensure that the answer file is complete by performing the Update Answer File operation on the ESXi host and then rebooting.

The configuration in the
host profile and answer file is applied on the system during initialization. Large configurations might take longer to boot, but it can be significantly faster than
manually applying the host profile through the vSphere client.

Host Profiles compliance check fails for reference host with newly created profile
A compliance check for a newly configured host profile for example, configured with iSCSI, might fail if the answer file is not updated before checking compliance.Workaround: Update the answer file for the profile before performing a compliance check.

vCenter Server and vSphere Client

The vSphere Client 5.0 does not display the default group of the default local user
The vSphere Client 5.0 does not display the default group to which the default local users such as dcui, vpxuser, and nfsnobody belong to. An error message similar to the following is displayed:

Unable to search virtual machines under Virtual Appliance in the VMs and Templates view
When you search for virtual machines under Virtual Appliance (vApp) in the VMs and Templates view, the results are displayed. However, when you click on the search results, the virtual machines
inside vApp are not displayed.Workaround: You can perform the search from Hosts and Clusters view.

vCenter performance chart for the past day displays data only for the current day with time zone set to local
The vCenter performance chart for the past day displays data only for the current day and not for a 24-hour period in an environment where vCenter Virtual Appliance is deployed and the time zone is
changed to the local time zone.Workaround: None.

Scheduled Tasks might display incorrect next run time if the vSphere Client system time is not set according to the UTC time zone
If task is scheduled by using a vSphere client whose system time is not set according to the UTC, vCenter System might incorrectly schedule the task ahead or later than the actual desired time. The issue is caused by vCenter Server storing and processing scheduled task times in UTC.

For example, consider the scenario when a task is scheduled in the JST time zone with frequency and start time similar to the following:Frequency: MonthlyStarting Time:1:00(JST)The last Wednesday of the month

Now, at 1:00 (JST), the last Wednesday of the month according to UTC time zone might be the first Wednesday of the next month according to the JST time zone. This might cause the scheduled task to run on the first Wednesday of the next month. This issue occurs when the starting time is between 0:00 and 8:59(JST).Workaround: None.

Exporting events for a long period of time results in the vSphere Client to display an error message: System.OutOfMemoryException
When exporting events for a long period of time, for example for several months, the vSphere Client displays an error message System.OutOfMemoryException and fails the export events task. In environments with very high number of events this error can occur at smaller intervals.
Workaround: To resolve this issue collect the events for a long period of time in short installments (short periods of time and combine them) by specifying the to and from time.

vCenter Server 5.0 is unable to function correctly when installed with Oracle 11.2.0.3 Patch 10 or later
vCenter Server 5.0 and 5.1 does not function correctly when installed with Oracle 11.2.0.3 Patch 10 or later. With this, creating a new virtual machine on vCenter Server 5.0 fails with the following error message:
An internal error occurred in the vSphere Client.
Details: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Guest operating system name displayed in Virtual Machines tab and Summary tab might be different
In vCenter Server, the guest operating system name selected during virtual machine creation might be different from the actual guest operating system running or installed on the virtual machine. For such virtual machines, always the Configured OS name would be shown in the Virtual Machines tab. Whereas, if you select the virtual machine name in the inventory and click on Summary tab, the guest operating system name shown might be either Runtime OS name or Configured OS name depending on whether VMware Tools is enabled or disabled, virtual machine powered on or off, etc.Workaround: None

The Summary tab might display incorrect values for Provisioned space for Hosts with VAAI NAS
When a virtual disk with Thick Provision Lazy zeroed format is created on an ESXi host with VAAI NAS, in the Datastores and Datastore Cluster view, the Provisioned space displayed on the Summary tab might be double of the provisioned storage set for the virtual disk.
For example the if the provisioned storage is 75GB, the Provisioned space displayed might be around 150 GB.Workaround: None

Email contains incorrect measurement unit information when custom alarms based on VM Total Size on Disk(GB) are triggered
If a custom alarm that is based on VM Total Size on Disk(GB) is set to trigger by size (GB),
the email generated when the alarm is triggered contains metric information that is not defined by size (GB).
For example, an email similar to the following is received where the metrics referenced is percentage (%) and not size (GB).Target: <Target_Name>
Previous Status: Gray
New Status: Yellow

Welcome screen of VMware vCenter Server Appliance console does not display the Configure Network optionConfigure Network option is no longer available through welcome screen of VMware vCenter Server Appliance console. Starting with this release, you will not be able to configure network settings from the welcome screen of VMware vCenter Server Appliance.
Workaround:Log into VMware vCenter Server Appliance Web UI using a web browser to configure the network settings.

Database size estimator displays 0.00B for embedded vPostgres database
When you use the vSphere Web Client, the vCenter database size estimator is not updated when using the vPostgres database. The Estimated database space or Estimated space required fields display 0.00B no matter what is set.
The size estimator continues to work for remote databases.Workaround: None

After upgrading the vCenter Server, the performance tab reports the message : Report application initialization is not completed successfully
If the VMware Virtual Center Management Webservices is running under a Windows Active Directory account, instead of a local system account,
the upgrade process may set the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices to run under local system.
The vCenter Server service continues to run under the domain account and the VirtualCenter Management Webservices service runs as local system, which impacts the correct operation of the VirtualCenter Management Webservices (Tomcat) service.Workaround:

Right-click the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices service and click Properties.

Click the Log On tab.

Change the account to use "This account:" and use the same domain account which the VMware VirtualCenter Server service is using.

Click OK.

Right-click the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices service and click Restart.

After the service starts, connect to the vCenter Server.

Note: You may have to follow this process for these services also

vCenter Inventory Service

VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service

vCenter Server Appliance vpxd service appears in running state even though service is not successfully initialized
On the VMware vCenter Server Appliance , the vpxd service appears in a running state when checked through the Web Console or through the command line, but users are unable to log in to the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Client.swWorkaround: None

vCenter Service status tab displays errors after you change the HTTP and HTTPS port settings on vCenter Server Appliance
In vCenter Server Appliance , after changing the HTTP and HTTPS port settings, the vCenter Service status tab in vSphere Client shows errors for services such as Storage Monitoring Service, Profile-driven Storage and vCenter Server. Storage Views tab for an ESX host may show no data. Workaround: None

The embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance supports an inventory with a maximum of 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines
The embedded database is not configured to manage an inventory that contains more than 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines. If you use the embedded database with the vCenter Server Appliance, exceeding these limits can cause numerous problems, such as causing vCenter Server to stop responding.

An error occurs when backing up inventory services data in the vCenter Server Appliance
When you run the /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/inventoryservice/scripts/backup.sh script to back up inventory services data in the vCenter Server Appliance, it might fail with the error message, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-bit Server VM warning: Attempt to allocate stack guard pages failed. This error occurs when the vCenter Server Appliance is low on memory and JVM cannot allocate enough memory to start the process.Workaround: Increase system RAM for the vCenter Server Appliance.

Restarting vpxd in the vCenter Server Appliance fails with a database error
On a vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded database, restarting vpxd might fail. An error message similar to the following appears in the vpxd.log file:Alert:false@ /build/mts/release/bora-336896/bora/vpx/vpxd/util/vpxdVdb.cpp:403

This error occurs if the system clock on the vCenter Server Appliance is reset to a time earlier than the time at which the database was created. As a result the database objects created by the vCenter Server Appliance having time stamps that appear to be in the future. This causes queries for database objects to fail.

You might encounter this error during Active Directory configuration if the clock on the Active Directory domain controller is set to an earlier time than the clock on the vCenter Server Appliance, because during the configuration, the vCenter Server Appliance clock is synchronized to the clock on the Active Directory domain controller.Workaround: After configuring the embedded database, do not set the system clock on the vCenter Server Appliance to an earlier time. When configuring Active Directory, ensure that the clock on the Active Directory domain controller is not set to a time earlier than the clock on the vCenter Server Appliance.

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance web console has options for configuring IPv6 even though IPv6 is not supported
Although the VMware vCenter Server Appliance does not support IPv6, the Network tab of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance Web console has a configuration option for IPv6 and assigns an IPv6 address to the appliance if a DHCPv6 server is on the network.Workaround: Type an invalid static IPv6 address for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance to prevent the appliance from obtaining an IPv6 address through DHCP.

Performance counters are shown to be at Stat-level 2 while they are actually moved to Stat-level3
In vCenter Server, some performance counters are actually moved to Stat-level 3, but appear to be available at Stat-level 2 in the vSphere Client.The vSphere Client is not updated correctly to reflect the changes to CPU and disk related information, which have been moved to stat-level 3. Workaround: Move to Stat-level 3 to use those counters.

Logging into vCenter (using SQL database) with certain third party applications can cause severe vCenter database performance issues
When applications like nWorks query the vCenter SQL database, the resultant SQL query can be very large which causes the database to run out of tempdb space and cause vCenter service to crash.Workaround: If the database performance issue is caused by a SQL query with a huge IN CLAUSE coming from vCenter Server, then the following config parameter can be used which alters the query produced from EventManagervia the vpxd.cfg configuration file.

Advanced performance chart views does not display data for virtual machines if data counters not applicable to virtual machines are selected
When customizing advanced performance chart views, if you use the per-virtual-machine stacked graph chart type for virtual machines and select data counters that are not applicable for virtual machine, the resulting chart does not display any performance data for the virtual machine. The Performance Chart Legend pane also does not show any data for the virtual machine.Workaround: When customizing advanced performance chart views, do not select data counter that are not applicable for virtual machines. TO know the list of counters applicable for virtual machines, select a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory, click the Performance tab and navigate to Advanced -> Chart Options.

The vSphere Web Client Alarms sidebar does not indicate the correct number of alarms present in the system
When more than 100 alarms are present in the system, the vSphere Web Client Alarms sidebar falsely indicates only 100 alarms. Workaround: None.

Overview performance charts do not appear for datastore clusters or datastores in large environments
In some large environments, overview performance charts might not appear for datastore clusters or datastores because vSphere Management WebServices, Tomcat, is out of memory.Workaround: Increase the amount of memory available to Tomcat.

When using the vSphere Web Client, you are repeatedly prompted to increase local storage available for Adobe Flash
The vSphere Web Client uses local storage on the system that issued to access the client to store log files. The storage limits for the log files are determined by Adobe Flash Player settings. As the log files grow, a dialog box appears prompting you to increase the limit. You are prompted again periodically until the storage limit reaches
Unlimited.Workaround: Set the storage limits for the Adobe Flash Player:

Open the Global Storage Settings panel by opening the following URL in your Web browser:

Select the URL for the vSphere Web Client in the Visited Websites list.

Set the slider to Unlimited.

Cannot select multiple columns for sorting in the vSphere Web Client
In tables in the vSphere Web Client, you can select the primary column for sorting by clicking on the column header. Clicking on a second column header changes that column to the primary sorting column rather than selecting it as the secondary sorting column.

Workaround: To sort by multiple columns in vSphere Web Client tables, perform the following procedure:

Select the primary column for sorting by clicking on the column header.

Select the secondary and subsequent columns for sorting by Ctrl-clicking on the column headers.

In the Add this Web site to the zone text box, type about:internet and click Add.

In the Add this Web site to the zone text box, type https://localhost and click Add.

Click OK.

Close and restart Internet Explorer.

Opening the vSphere Administration Application from a shortcut produces the error: Windows cannot find 'https://localhost:9443/admin-app'
When Firefox is the default Web browser and is not running, launching the vSphere Administration Application from a shortcut might produce the error:Windows cannot find 'https://localhost:9443/admin-app'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

The vSphere Web Client does not load the vCenter Server inventory if the vCenter Server host name cannot be resolved
If the vSphere Web Client cannot resolve the vCenter Server system's host name and the vCenter Server is registered with the vSphere Client using an IP address, the vSphere Web Client cannot load the inventory tree.Workaround: Ensure that the vCenter Server's host name can be resolved in one of the following ways:

Add the vCenter Server system to your name server.

Add the vCenter Server system to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file on the system that runs the vSphere Web Client

Flash plug-in crashes when logging in or out of vSphere Web Client on Linux
When you log in or out of the vSphere Web Client on a Linux system, the Flash plug-in might crash.Workaround: Reload the page to restart the Flash plug-in.

Cannot access vSphere Web Client administration tool using a local IPv6 address
If you attempt to access the vSphere Web Client administration tool using a local IPv6 address, the Web browser displays the error messagevSphere Web Client administration tool cannot be accessed from a remote host.

Workaround: Use localhost instead of the IPv6 address to access the administration tool. For example, use https://localhost:9443/admin-app instead of an address like https://[fc00:10:20:123:355c:1744:1b82:6716]:9443/admin-app.

Internet Explorer 7 cannot access vSphere Client Web pages when the client is installed on a system that uses pure IPv6
If the vSphere Web Client is installed on an operating system that uses pure IPv6, you cannot use Internet Explorer 7 to access the vSphere Web Client.Workaround: Use Firefox or Internet Explorer 8 to access the vSphere Web Client.

Internet Explorer might fail to download the Client Integration Plug-In
When you use Internet Explorer to download the Client Integration Plug-In, you might see the error message,Internet Explorer cannot download the vmware-vmcr-win32-x86.exe from localhost. This happens when certain security settings in Internet Explorer prevent download of the Client Integration Plug-In.Workaround: Use an alternative method of downloading the Client Integration Plug-In.

Use Firefox to connect to the vSphere Web Client and download the Client Integration Plug-In.

Use Internet Explorer to connect to the Client Integration Plug-In file directly using the non-secure port http://ipaddress:portnumber/vsphere-client/vmrc/vmware-vmrc-win32-x86.exe. For example, http://localhost:9090/vsphere-client/vmrc/vmware-vmrc-win32-x86.exe.

The vSphere Web Client does not load or refresh data
Sometimes the vSphere Web Client cannot load or refresh data. The loading spinner at the top right corner of the application continues to spin, and the requested information is not displayed.Workaround: Perform one or more of the following procedures:

Click the browser's Refresh button.

Select a different object from the inventory tree and click the browser's Refresh button.

Check the health status of vCenter Server and its services. Restart any services that have stopped.

The vSphere Web Client login page is not accessible from the vCenter Server Welcome page
If you use a localhost URL to access the vCenter Server Welcome page, clicking the Log in to vSphere Web Client produces an error.Workaround: Use the IP address or host name of the vCenter Server system to access the Welcome page.

The Select Users and Groups dialog box in the vSphere Client shows truncated user and group names
When you add a permission to an inventory object in the vSphere Client, the Select Users and Groups dialog box might display truncated names for users and groups. For example,
Administrator might display as tor. Users and groups can be selected only by typing the correct complete name.
This occurs when the Workstation service in Windows is stopped.

Workaround: Restart the Workstation service on the vCenter Server machine.

Select Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Services.

Right-click Workstation and select Start.

The exported list of virtual machines might be incomplete
When you select a datacenter, cluster, host, or other object in the vSphere Client inventory and export a list of its virtual machines, the list might not include all the virtual machines. This occurs because information in the list is not always populated for objects that are not visible. Workaround: Before exporting, scroll through the list to make sure that all virtual machines are displayed.

Spurious error messages appear in the vSphere Web Client log files
Some spurious error messages appear in the vSphere Web Client log files because of the versions of Tomcat and dm Server used. These include a number of
INFO messages as well as the message, SEVERE: No global context defined for server. You can ignore these messages.Workaround: None.

vSphere Web Client online Help incorrectly lists Firefox 3.5 as a supported browser
The vSphere Web Client online Help incorrectly lists Firefox 3.5 as a supported Web browser for the vSphere Web Client and client integration plug-in.Workaround: For information about supported Web browsers, see the vSphere Installation and Setup documentation.

The vSphere Client shows an error message when attempting to view virtual machine Storage Profiles
When you connect the vSphere Client to vCenter Server and attempt to view a virtual machine's storage profile, you might see the error message,
vCenter Server is unable to connect to Profile-driven storage service at http:///sps/sdk.
A port conflict occurs when the Storage Profile Service and another service are configured to use port 31000. The vSphere Web Client and vCenter Orchestrator can cause this conflict.

Workaround: Restart vSphere Web Client service and the vCenter Orchestrator configuration service. The services will pick the next available free port when they are restarted. If only one of the services is present or running on the machine, you need only restart that service.

Information in the Virtual Machines tab might not refresh
Sometimes information in the Virtual Machines tab in the vSphere Client might not immediately refresh. For example, if you clone or register a large number of virtual machines, some virtual machines might not appear in the Virtual Machines tab, although they appear in the inventory tree. If you power on or power off a large number of virtual machines, the new power states might not be reflected on the Virtual Machines tab, although they are correctly displayed in the inventory tree.
Workaround: Press F5 to refresh the information in the tab.

vSphere Web Client does not load in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Server 2008
When you attempt to load the vSphere Web Client in Internet Explorer 9 on a Windows Server 2008 system, you see a blue background in the Web browser window and no further activity.Workaround: On Windows Server 2008 systems, use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or later to access the vSphere Web Client.

vSphere Web Client state does not persist between sessions
The state of the vSphere Web Client normally persists between sessions, so that when you log in with the vSphere Web Client again, the same objects and tabs are selected that were selected when you logged out of the previous session. However, if your Web browser preferences are set so that the browser does not remember history, or if the Flash player Website Storage settings do not allocate any storage for visited sites, the Flash player does not store data from the vSphere Web Client and the state does not persist from session to session.

The vSphere Web Client intermittently produces Error #2406: The loaded file did not have a valid signature
When using Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the follow error message might occur intermittently:Error #2406: The loaded file did not have a valid signature.Workaround:Restart the Web browser and reconnect to the vSphere Web Client.

vCenter Server Crashes When Exporting System Logs
When you export system logs from vCenter Server, vCenter Server uses the folder specified by the WindowsTEMP environment variable. By default, this variable is set of C:\Windows\Temp.
If vCenter Server is configured to store a large amount of log data, or if you select a large number of hosts from which to download logs, the drive specified in theTEMP variable can run out of space. If this drive is the same drive on which vCenter Server is installed, the VMware VirtualCenter Server service might crash.Workaround: Ensure that the drive specified by the Windows TEMP environment variable has enough free space for exported logs. Consider specifying a drive other than
C: in the TEMP variable to prevent disruption to system services.

Virtual Machine Management

Virtual machines within a vApp are powered off when the vApp's shutdown option is set to Guest Shutdown
When you perform the shutdown operation on a vApp, all the virtual machines within the vApp are powered off, ignoring the configured shutdown action set for the vApp.
Workaround: Use the Power Off option in the vApp to shutdown virtual machines within the vApp.

CPU hot add error on hardware version 7 virtual machines
Virtual CPU hot add is supported with the multicore virtual CPU feature for hardware 8 virtual machines.
For hardware version 7 virtual machines with cores per socket greater than 1, when you enable CPU hot add in the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box and try to hot add virtual CPUs, the operation fails and a CPU hot plug not supported for this virtual machine error message appears.Workaround: To use the CPU hot-add feature with hardware version 7 virtual machines, power off the virtual machine and set the number of cores per socket to 1.
For best results, use hardware version 8 virtual machines.

USB devices passed through from an ESXi host to a virtual machine might disconnect during migration with vMotion
When a USB device is passed through to a virtual machine from an ESXi host and the device is configured to remain connected during migration with vMotion, the device might disconnect during the vMotion operation. The devices can also disconnect if DRS triggers a migration. When the devices disconnect, they revert to the host and are no longer connected to the virtual machine. This problem occurs more often when you migrate virtual machines that have multiple USB devices connected, but occasionally happens when one
or a small number of devices are connected. Workaround: Migrate the virtual machine back to the ESXi host to which the USB devices are physically attached and reconnect the devices to the virtual machine.

A virtual machine with an inaccessible SCSI passthrough device fails to power on
If a SCSI passthrough device attached to a virtual machine has a device backing that is inaccessible from the virtual machine's host, the virtual machine fails to power on with the error, An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM.Workaround: Perform one of the following procedures:

If the virtual machine's host has a physical SCSI device, change the device backing of the SCSI passthrough device to the host's physical SCSI device, and power on the virtual machine.

If the host does not have a physical SCSI device, remove the SCSI passthrough device from the virtual machine and power it on.

Virtual machine clone or relocation operations from ESXi 5.0 to ESX/ESXi 4.1 fail if replication is enabled
If you use the hbr enablereplication command to enable replication on a virtual machine that resides on an ESXi 5.0 host and clone the virtual machine to an ESX/ESXi 4.1 or earlier host, validation fails with an operation is not supported error message. Cloning of ESXi 5.0 virtual machines on ESX/ESXi 4.1 hosts is not supported.Workaround: Select one of the following workarounds:

Clone the virtual machine onto an ESXi 5.0 host

Clone or relocate a new virtual machine on an ESX/ESXi 4.1 host.

vCenter Server 5.0 and ESX/ESXi host incompatibility cause migration operations for virtual machines with delta disks to fail
If vCenter Server 5.0 manages a host earlier than ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 3, you cannot migrate virtual machines with snapshots or delta disks to that host. Attempting such migrations results in the following system error message:Migration of VMs with snapshots or delta disks is not supported due to version incompatibility between vCenter Server and ESX. To continue this operation, please upgrade your ESX host(s) to ESX 4.0 Update 3 or later.The same restriction applies and a similar error message appears for ESX/ESXi 4.1. ESX/ESXi 4.1 does not support migration of virtual machines with delta disks if vCenter Server 5.0 manages the host.Workaround: Upgrade the ESX/ESXi host to ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 3 or later or upgrade to ESX 4.1 Update 1 or later.

Non-ASCII DNS suffixes are not set correctly after customizing Windows XP and Windows 2003
If you enter a non-ASCII DNS suffix in the Network Properties DNS tab when you use the Customization Specification Wizard to customize Windows XP or Windows 2003, the customization is reported as successful but the non-ASCII DNS suffix is not set correctly.Workaround: Set the DNS suffix manually in Windows XP and Windows 2003.

The snapshot disk path in the .vmsd snapshot database file and the parent path in the delta disk descriptor file are not updated after migration
When snapshot.redoNotWithParent is set to TRUE and you change thesnapshotDirectory setting from, for example, Database A to Database B, you might see an error message that says,Detected an invalid snapshot configuration. This problem occurs when both of the following conditions exist:

You revert to a previous snapshot in the snapshot tree and create new snapshots from that snapshot point. The result is a nonlinear snapshot tree hierarchy.

The disk links in a disk chain span multiple datastores and include both the source and destination datastores. This situation occurs if you change the snapshotDirectory settings to point to different datastores more than once and take snapshots of the virtual machine between the snapshotDirectory changes. For example, you take snapshots of a virtual machine with snapshotDirectory set to Datastore A, revert to a previous snapshot, then change the snapshotDirectory settings to Datastore B and take additional snapshots. Now you migrate the virtual disk from Datastore B to Datastore A.

The best practice is to retain the default setting, which stores the parent and child snapshots together in the snapshot directory. Avoid changing the snapshotDirectory settings or taking snapshots between datastore changes.
If you set snapshot.redoNotWithParent to TRUE, perform a full storage migration to a datastore that is currently not used by the virtual machine.

Migration

Cold migration of a virtual machine that has IDE virtual disk from an ESXi 5.0 host to ESX/ESXi 4.x host fails with the error The operation is not supported on the object
When you use vCenter Server 5.0 to cold migrate a virtual machine that has one or more IDE virtual disks from an ESXi 5.0 host to a host running ESX/ESXi 4.x, the migration fails with the error The operation is not supported on the object.

Workaround: Perform the following steps.

On the ESXi 5.0 host, select the virtual machine.

If the virtual machine resides on a host-only datastore on the ESXi 5.0 host, move the virtual machine .vmx and .vmdk files to a shared LUN that is accessible to the ESXi 5.0 host and the ESX/ESXi 4.x host.

Cold migrate the virtual machine to the ESX/ESXi 4.x host by using the Change host option in the Migrate Virtual Machine wizard.

During Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions, the time axis on performance charts is not updated to reflect the DST time change.
For example, local clocks in areas that observe DST were set forward 1 hour on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 3am. The tick markers on the time axis of performance charts should have been labeled ..., 2:00, 2:20, 2:40, 4:00, 4:20, ..., omitting ticks for the hour starting at 3am. The labels actually displayed are ..., 2:00, 2:20, 2:40, 3:00, 3:20, 3:40, 4:00, 4:20, ....Workaround: None

Virtual machine disks retain their original format after a Storage vMotion operation in which the user specifies a disk format change
When you attempt to convert the disk format to Thick Provision Eager Zeroed during a Storage vMotion operation of a powered-on virtual machine on an host running ESX/ESXi 4.1 or earlier, the conversion does not happen. The Storage vMotion operation succeeds, but the disks continue to retain their original disk format because of an inherent limitation of ESX/ESXi 4.1 and earlier. If the same operation is performed on a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.0 host, the conversion happens correctly.Workaround: None.

The vCenter Server support bundle tool cannot find log data that is stored in a custom location
The vCenter Server support bundle tool cannot locate log files that are stored in custom, non-default, locations. The vCenter Server support bundle tool is different from the vSphere Client log gathering tool.

Workaround: Connect a vSphere Client to a vCenter Server and use the Export System Logs function to retrieve log data. In the vSphere Client, select Administration > Export System Logs.

When you cannot connect a vSphere Client to a vCenter Server, you must manually copy the files into the log bundle.

VMware HA and Fault Tolerance

In vCenter Server 5.0 a number of advanced configuration options for vSphere HA are no longer supported
The following options are no longer supported.

If you attempt to set one of the unsupported options, vCenter Server 5.0 reports that the option is not valid. Also, if you upgrade to vCenter Server 5.0 from a previous version with any of these options defined, they are deleted and are no longer in effect.Workaround: None.

Internationalization

Search does not find localized characters in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, French, and Spanish.
Search for localized characters does not retrieve hits for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and characters in German, French, and Spanish.Workaround: When searching for topics, use English interface.

Issues related to localized search and search scope in the vSphere Web Client Help
Known issues with localized search in the vSphere Web Client Help include:
Searches using localized characters for non-English languages do not retrieve results.
If you create search scope names using non-ASCII characters, these characters do not display correctly.Workaround: Edit the tomcat-server.xml file to specify URI encoding as UTF-8:

Open the file vSphere_Web_Client_Installation_Directory\springsource-dm-server-2.0.4\config\tomcat-server.xml using a text editor.
Edit the following section of the file to add the parameter URIEncoding="UTF-8" at the end of the line
connectionTimeout="20000":

CIM and API

Invoking a specific API from View Composer results in client side de-serialization error
Attempts to monitor tasks of the private API calls in the vCenter Server by using the public Clients-VMware Web Services SDK while using the View Composer might cause the following
exception:

org.xml.sax.SAXException: No deserializer for {urn:vim25}ArrayOfCbrcDigestRecomputeResult

Note: Clients who have access to task oriented APIs can only get the task completed status object by using the waitForUpdatesEx() method. Public clients cannot have
access to any of the internal API result objects visible by TaskHistoryCollectors.